Growing up in Sussex during the turbulent 17th century, John became
involved in the illegal 'owling' trade, where he learnt his
seamanship. Whilst carousing in a Rye inn he was unexpectedly
pressed into the Royal Navy. In 1694, disgruntled with the
ill-fated Spanish Expedition, he joined 'Long Ben' Every's mutiny
setting sail as his coxswain to the Indian Ocean in the Fancy, a
ship of 46 guns,...'and bound to seek our fortunes' as they
declared. It made Henry Every the richest pirate in the world, and
was said, the most profitable raid in history. A popular ballad of
the time proclaimed: "Here's to gentlemen at sea tonight, and a
toast to all free men And when the devil comes to take us home,
he'll drink With old Long Ben!" After the hue and cry, the slippery
Every changed his name and disappeared. On returning to England
John was caught and lost his fortune. Escaping the hangman, he
emerges later as a respectable partner to John Coggs a London
goldsmith banker, trading from the sign of the Kings Head in the
Strand. Unfortunately he became disastrously embroiled in a massive
bankruptcy fraud that shook the city.
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